We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it.

We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.

The black woman had had to struggle against being a person of great strength.

My mother helped me understand how not to show off what I knew, but how to use it so that others might benefit.

I want to be remembered as one who tried.

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.

If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time.